HOLIDAYS WEEKENDS

Poland has evidence that a Huawei sales director and a Polish citizen “cooperated with the Chinese services,” according to a spokesman for Poland’s special services branch.

Juan David Ortiz, a supervisor in the U.S. Border Patrol, wanted to “clean the streets,” prosecutors say. Ortiz is accused of killing four women, and prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.

The group running a pop-up pantry says nearly 200 families stopped in to help themselves to food in the first few hours. Diapers and baby food are in high demand.

Mexico was going to pay for it. Now President Trump claims he never said that. Trump has reversed himself multiple times about a signature campaign promise, now the center of a government shutdown.

The United States stripped Jakiw Palij of his citizenship in 2003, but it was difficult finding a country to take him. He was never charged for his involvement in the Holocaust.

The candidate at the center of the disputed congressional election in North Carolina is a pastor who worked hard to break into politics. Now, state investigators are probing his campaign’s tactics.

Furloughed workers can’t refinance or buy homes without the ability to verify their income. For a recently divorced couple, it means continuing to live together until financial issues are resolved.

A former ambassador to Yemen, scholars and Muslim leaders question Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claims that the U.S. under Trump is a positive influence in the Middle East.

Brewmasters at craft breweries across the nation are bemoaning the government shutdown — the federal agency that has to approve new labels for new brews is closed, delaying all new releases.

Prosecutors say the men pulled off the low-tech heist using a ladder, rope and a wheelbarrow. Police believe the $4.3 million coin has been melted down and sold in pieces. The men deny all charges.

Brazilians are desperate for public safety, but the president’s plan to dismantle firearm legislation is the wrong way to reduce crime, writes security researcher Robert Muggah.

President Trump continues his quest to curb illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. One expert says there have always been ebbs and flows to how welcoming the U.S. is to immigrants.

As winter closed in on the town of Roddickton-Bide Arm in Newfoundland, a pod of seals became separated from open water by miles of ice.

Migrants are fleeing hyperinflation and widespread hunger. More than a dozen governments in the Americas have rejected the legitimacy of Maduro’s re-election.

Bernice Sandler died Saturday at the age of 90. She once told NPR she beams with pride at seeing female athletes walk “with their heads up and feeling like, ‘Yeah, I can handle this world.’ “